--- title: "World Vegetarian Congress 1963 - North Americans at the Congress - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "World Vegetarian Congress 1963 - North Americans at the Congress: with the co-operation of the I.V.U. President, Woodland Kahler Marquis de St." url: "https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=4028:congress-wvc63-north-americans&catid=186" date: "2026-11-06T00:01:52+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # World Vegetarian Congress 1963 - North Americans at the Congress *from pre-Congress publicity:* . . . with the co-operation of the I.V.U. President, Woodland Kahler Marquis de St. Innocent, who now lives near Barcelona, have arranged a very interesting programme. - [Front Cover of the Congress Special edition of the British Vegetarian](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=4022:congress-wvc63-cover&catid=186) - with Woodland Kahler in the middle. *from Congress reports:* The Sessions commenced on Saturday, June 23rd, with registration and speeches of welcome by the I.V.U. President (Woodland Kahier, Marquis de St. Innocent), . . . Reports were heard from Societies and visitors from . . . the United States of America. Mr. Symond Gould (U.S.A.) was to speak on Vegetarian Health and Hygiene, his discourse seemed have a more political flavour and he was able to get himself a lot of publicity and a cartoon in the local newspaper. - [President's Message ](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=4034:congress-wvc63-president&catid=186)- from Woodland Kahler *from minutes of the Business Meetings:* In the presence of Official Delegates from . . . United States of America,. . . CHAIRMAN: Woodland Kahler Marquis de St Innocent (President of The IVU) presided at all Sessions. GREETINGS were announced from Societies in . . .Canada, . . . ELECTION OF OFFICERS: The following were re-elected and elected: President: Woodland Kahler Marquis de St Innocent (re-elected) Vice Presidents: (re-elected) Mr Lowell Fillmore (USA) Dr Jesse Mercer Gehman (USA) Dr W Mc Gregor (USA) Mr S H Linnio (USA) Dr J Maxwell (USA) Mr Curtis Freshel (USA) Miss Ruth Playle (Canada) Prof H B Stevens (USA) Regional Secretaries: Mr J N Mankar (India and The East); Dr Jesse Mercer Geliman (USA) were re-elected. *from Minutes of the Executive Committee meeting during the Congress:*Present: Marquis de St.Innocent (in Chair) . . - [Delegate Report - Mr. Daniel P. Hoffman, U.S.A.](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=4044:congress-wvc63-report-usa&catid=186) ![](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc63/flowers.jpg) Flowers for the I.V.U. President's wife at the farewell dinner. A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly. Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value. - Hits: 1179 ## Schema ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://ivu.org/hv-congress-main-congress-wvc63-index.html?view=article&id=4028:congress-wvc63-north-americans&catid=186","url":"https://ivu.org/hv-congress-main-congress-wvc63-index.html?view=article&id=4028:congress-wvc63-north-americans&catid=186","name":"World Vegetarian Congress 1963 - North Americans at the Congress","inLanguage":"en","isPartOf":[{"@id":"https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html#archive"},{"@id":"https://ivu.org/hv-congress-main-congress-wvc63-index.html"}],"publisher":{"@id":"https://ivu.org/#organization"},"description":"from pre-Congress publicity: . . . with the co-operation of the I.V.U. 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